The rule requires hospitals and critical access hospitals to adopt written policies and procedures regarding visitation and bars them from restricting or limiting visitation rights on any impermissible basis, including sexual orientation and gender identity.
Revisiting Your Hospital’s Visitation Policy will assist hospital counsel and administrators to revise their hospital visitation policies to satisfy the new requirements.
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